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According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, over 37,000 lives were lost in the U.S. in 2016 from motor vehicle fatalities, an increase of 5.6 percent from the prior year. The largest increases occurred among pedestrians and cyclists (see Figure 1). Pedestrian fatalities grew from 11 percent of all traffic deaths in 2006 and […]

Over the last several decades, automakers and safety groups changed vehicle design to improve the overall crashworthiness of vehicles. These updated vehicles do a better job of protecting vehicle occupants from injury and fatality, and have lower repair costs from redesign of vehicle components such as bumpers. More recently, technology designed to avoid a crash […]

Putting the AI in the Automotive Industry Huge investments and bets are being made by automakers, tech companies, insurers and collision repairers, as companies position themselves to benefit from new technologies; technology that not only changes the types of vehicles consumers buy in the future, but how and when they buy, how they insure, and how they repair in […]

It has been suggested that the world today is experiencing the Fourth Industrial Revolution, as technologies such as mobile digitalization, artificial intelligence, automation, the internet of things, machine learning, voice recognition and others have begun to merge the physical and digital worlds. Personal mobility is one of many areas undergoing dramatic change, and given that […]

As we head into 2018, automotive and technology companies continue their race towards vehicle autonomy. Daily headlines provide accelerated timelines when autonomous vehicles will be available in large numbers, communicating with one another via vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication. To check out the rest of the series visit CCC’s YouTube channel. Download the full PDF here. […]

Technology has changed the way that humans interact with one another and their surroundings, and how they choose who to do business with. Digital devices have become an ingrained part of everyone’s lives, with 88 percent of U.S. adults using the internet; 77 percent owning a smartphone; and 51 percent owning a tablet as of […]

Increases in auto claim frequency have been a topic of great interest to all in our industry. Numerous factors such as the following have been central to returning automotive claim frequency back to pre-recession levels. An in-depth look specifically at miles driven data helps us understand why claim frequency continues to rise, but is rising […]

Despite a number of severe convective storm events across the U.S. in the first eight months of this year, overall economic and insured losses were trending below losses from prior years. To check out the rest of the series visit CCC’s YouTube channel. Download the full PDF here. Watch Here

The transformation of a vehicle to an IoT device is happening. The vehicle is being transformed from a mostly mechanical object to a fully wired, connected electronic object. Even the driver now is shifting into passenger mode, with telematics offering the ability to reach consumers more often and in many new ways. To check […]

Our theme for Crash Course 2017 was “It’s Happening”, and a quick review of some of the hot issues so far this year underscore just how quickly our landscape is being transformed. Whether it is a growing trend to offer consumers the ability to submit a claim via a mobile app and photos, growing […]